Snow Removal In The Alps (Europe) is Amazing..

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[MrOpacor]

A farmer who uses some Unimogs once told me: If you need something done and an Unimog cannot do it you do NOT need it done, because it cannot be done.

[Dreyno]

The best thing about the Alps (but also other mountain ranges in Europe) is the habitation. Yes, there are amazing mountains in Alaska but the Alps have a town at the bottom with bars and restaurants. It’s like the Rockies on steroids.

[Tom_Err]

These guys often work in tandem with a tractor following the Unimog to finish the plowing. It's so satisfying to watch professionals at work in a stunning landscape. Great guys who deserve some positive attention!

[ktadesse]

My uncle lives in the Austrian Alps. He needs to shovel 50 m pathway to the road with over 90 years old, which is ploughed like this. And this is light new powder snow, not too heavy. We used to sledge down the fresh ploughed streets, that was fun, crashing into the snow walls. The car is standing in front of his house.

[Mafed_Graystone]

I used to work for a company that does snow removal here in Germany. Not as a driver, but as a mechanic.
We had 3 or 4 Unimogs and one of the drivers said once to me: The Unimogs have so much torque and the perfect gearing that you could drive through a house at idle.

[tristanpirker]

I live in Upper Styria on the south side of the Alps (near the Red Bull Ring in Zeltweg). When I was a child in the 1970s and 1980s, we almost always had snowy winters (the altitude where we live is about 650 meters). The peak of these winters was in February 1986, when there was 1.70 meters of wet snow overnight (it lasted until mid-June lasted until the last piles of snow had melted). But since then there have been very few winters that brought much snow. The last few years it has rained more than snowed (same thing yesterday). The winters have become warmer but last longer. A few years ago we had minus 10 degrees Celsius on May 3rd in the morning.

[jensschmidt]

8:38 it has ALL the gears in reverse. Or no reverse at all, depending on how you see it. Unimogs don't have a classic "reverse" gear, but rather you can switch the entire gear box between "forward" and "reverse" with a second shifter. Meaning you shift just as you would going forward with your 1st, 2nd, 3rd gear and so on - only going backwards.

[jolloyd]

Oh my, all of that snow has taken me back to my late teens visiting my family in the DDR.
Finding a lot more snow had fallen whilst we been out eating and drinking we set off to walk back to my Oma's house.
Lots of laughter that night trying to act sober before we got to the house.
Eventually after my aunts, uncles, cousins etc gave up trying to convince Oma that no not a lot alcohol had passed anyone's lips they realised i was missing.
When we did get a bit of snow here in the UK my mother would have to sit down from laughing remembering how they found me.
They could hear me laughing back down the hill.
I'd slipped down a small bank and partly covered with snow lay there unable to move from laughter..
Watching your video which wasn't even filmed in Germany has brought back that night and one of my happiest memories as though it was yesterday.
Amazing what seeing some lovely deep snow can do.
Gosh, seeing as i don't usually comment I've really let loose today. 😊. Peace and happiness to you and your family.

[NZotyoka]

That’s why you can’t even enter to Austria without snow tires and snow chains. The local law enforcement stopping people randomly and they even measuring the treads on the tires. If the wheels are too worn you will get a massive fine.

[Madpegasusmax]

Unimogs are so cool . You can have the orange one in Lego Technic

[Brauiz]

I know this channel for years now. The scenery is in Tirol, Austria. I've been working in the bavarian Alps and there the village also used an Unimog for snow removal.

[wolfii]

Unimogs have usually 8 gears and the lower 4 can be used for reverse, because reverse is an extra stick that only changes the output direction of the main gearbox and blocks the upper 4 gears.
There is also the option of gear reducers, to double the 8 gears into 16 or 24 gears (inching gear, working gear, off road gear), for very high torque at very low speed, inching gears go from 130m/h at 2200rpm to 1700m/h

[benceseger]

I'm a prairie boy, grew up in the Great Plains of Hungary, so elevation fascinates me. I went to a town in the hills in the summer and oh boy, a street had such a steep decline it was scary. If you were to slip there in the winter you'd not stop until the bottom of the hill.

[MikeM]

Another Swedish comment. Unimogs very rare here. The big roads are mostly cleared by federal trucks, which also spread sand and salt. Smaller roads usually ploughed by privately owned gravel trucks, fitted with ploughs in the winter. Really small roads with farm tractors and wheel loaders. In cities lots of trucks needed to get snow to dumps.
Mild winter so far, only three hours with the wheel loader on my farm. More snow farther north.

[rogurooster]

I worked a few winter seasons in the Alps, best job I ever had, the video doesn't do justice to the scenery around there!

[ThomasRitz-jp]

in the 80s and 90s I drove in winter with Unimogs and large trucks 🚚 🚚 🚚 with the snow plow! 40 years ago we already had automatic snow chains! Between the rear axles there were chain links hanging on movable plates that were activated with compressed air at the push of a button! The plates rotated very quickly and the chain links were thrown under the tires! The Unimogs never stopped and drove through everything! But if you drove for 12 hours in an old Unimog built in 1960 or 1970, you were completely knocked out! It was terribly loud, terribly cramped and terribly hot in the driver's cabin because you were sitting right next to the engine! I can't understand why it is still not compulsory for trucks to have snow chains in winter!? Best wishes from the Eifel

[kholdanstaalstorm]

This reminds me of my dad being the on-call plow man for where he worked, having with him a NMT450 mobile phone bag, bringing me with him for the ride along when the snow was especially deep.
Driving large tractors and a gleaming red Scania V8, seeing the yellow blinkers illuminating the countryside where the rows of 1000m floodlights didn't cover, making the darkness flash in a warm glow.
Seeing that seemingly solid bar of snow flowing off the end of the plow curl, it's kinda a core memory of my childhood.

[pedroleal]

People who live in this regions/conditions, are used to it and have adapted+ Municipalities do their jobs, clearing the ways, usually before anyone gets moving . It's the sudden changes in weather that are dangerous, in the mountains, like rain+ sudden cold air = ice everywhere, without prior notice and people who are not used to it. And also, usually, if you're stuck somewhere, other people around tend to help ! Take care!

[kurthuber]

the first Video is my Home in Tirol Zellberg

[MrBern]

Pist machines is something I love to watch. Those vehicles which is maintaining the pists in ski resorts. So frigging cool to see those hardcore workers in the evenings and early mornings just flattening out the pists for the earliest of skiers. :) And they can friggen climb the elevation of the pists where it is already slippery.